Dacre Stoker, a Canadian citizen and resident of the U.S. , is the great grand nephew of Dracula author Bram Stoker. He is also the godson of H.G. Dacre Stoker, the commander of the AE2 submarine, whose tactics were instrumental in the battle of Gallipoli in Word War I.

Dacre, who now calls Aiken , South Carolina home, was a member of the Canadian Men's Modern Pentathlon Team, Senior World Championships in 1979 and coach of the Canadian Men's Modern Pentathlon OlympicTeam, Seoul , South Korea in 1988.

Dacre is married to Jenne Stoker and the father of two children. He is the Executive Director of the Aiken Land Conservatory. Dracula The Un-Dead is Dacre's first novel.

Ian Holt - In his own words:

I started out as an actor and was in the late, great Stella Adler's last acting class through NYU's Tisch School Of The Arts before she retired. In that class as part of Adler's method we learned how to break down a play and create our own character backstories. I became fascinated with story structure, character development and expanding plays beyond what was on the page. This lead to me writing my first screenplay which was optioned. After that I was hooked on writing. With acting you are always a small cog in a much bigger wheel, but writing allows you to control your own work's destiny. When writing you are the boss. The UN-DEAD is my first attempt at writing a novel. Also, I hated the regimented world of 9-5 work and writing is my way of living life and earning a living on my own terms. Writing is freedom.

I hope people take away from this book the TRUE Dracula story as Bram envisioned it- "an amazing and visionary tale of Gothic horror and romance that holds a mirror up to our society's shortfalls and repression" - and leave behind the films other than a few which have turned Dracula and Bram into a farce.